Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), a federal crown corporation, is Canada’s national housing agency. We are responsible for housing programs, policy development, offering data, information and insights on housing markets, undertaking research and supporting indigenous housing. In 2017, we launched the National Housing Strategy (NHS), a 10-year, $40-billion plan to expand and sustain the supply of affordable housing across Canada. A year later, we announced a new corporate...

Meal Exchange (MX) is a national organization working with university students to ensure “ Good Food For All ” on Canadian campuses. CESI’s multi-year collaboration on food insecurity began with MX and one research project, and has since evolved to include new partners, new research, co-convening events, and advocacy efforts. Through exploring the many facets of this partnership, this blog post highlights many of the ways that an organization like CESI can work with community partners to do...

The map features CBR Canada members research centres, community organizations, and community-based researchers across the country. Explore this map to learn more about community-based researchers in Canada and consider adding your profile ! #CBRCanadaNews

Visioning Health II emerged from the Visioning Health I pilot study. Findings indicated that research can be healing for participants, when done with attention to: MEIWA, strengths, Indigenous knowledges, cultural traditions, and ceremony. Visioning Health II involved the participation of 67 Indigenous women who are HIV-positive between the ages of 24 to 70 years across eight sites in Canada. #MemberResearch #EquityinResearch

Janzen, R. and Ochocka, J. 2020. Assessing excellence in community-based research: Lessons from research with Syrian refugee newcomers. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement,13:1 , Article ID 7037 . This article reflects on three Syrian refugee research projects that were conducted in Ontario, Canada to demonstrate tangible ways of assessing research projects which claim to be community-based, and in so doing gain a deeper understanding of how research can be...

St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) is one of Canada’s leading undergraduate universities, located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.  One of the distinguishing features of StFX is that it combines the pursuit of research excellence with local and regional social relevance achieved through community engagement and partnerships.  These efforts have had global reach and impact.  Dating back to the Antigonish Movement, StFX has had a long and continuing tradition of working with communities to...

The Fall 2019 CBRC e-News is available now. Read the CBRC e-news for the CBR current happenings in Canada. #CBRCanadaNews

The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) is situated on the traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin people. The MHCC has a rich history in community-engaged research marked by two landmark demonstration projects: At Home/Chez Soi , which helped inform a national shift in policy and dialogue towards Housing First as a response to housing/homelessness; and Roots of Hope , a community-led suicide intervention study actively underway in partner communities across Canada. When...

Engaging with communities is of growing importance to industry, government, and the non-profit sector, from pipelines to homelessness. But doing engagement well requires an understanding of the theory, practices and processes that inform it. The Master of Arts in Community Engagement (MACE) , offered through the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, is an interdisciplinary, thesis-based degree that prepares students for the study and practice of community engagement. MACE is...

The Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) is funding 14 community-based research projects that will explore how cannabis use affects underserved populations across the country. Learn more about the projects here. #MemberNews

Herchak, K. (2020). Decolonization Toolkit . VIDEA. This toolkit was designed to spark conversation and growth personally, professionally, organizationally, or community wide. An objective of this toolkit is to inspire deep and substantial conversation about Indigenous people, histories, decolonization and reconciliation. #MemberNews #EquityinResearch

The pdf below features community-based research journal articles between 2020 and 1998 written by a wide variety of contributors. #MemberResearch #CBRTheory #CBRMethods

Aurora College is a college located in the Northwest Territories, Canada with campuses in Inuvik, Fort Smith, and Yellowknife. The college also includes 21 Community Learning Centres located in remote communities across the NWT. Currently, the college is sectioned into two large divisions: the post-secondary division and the job training and adult education division.The post-secondary division of the college offers several degree programs through partnerships with southern universities,...

The Community-Based Research Excellence Tool (CBRET) is a reflective assessment tool for those involved in community-based research ( learn more ). CBRET aims to assess the quality and impact of community-based research proposals and projects. The trainers for the workshop are Joanna Ochocka and Rich Janzen, the co-directors of Centre for Community Based Research. Read below to learn more! April 25, 2019 Carleton University hosted a CBRET workshop in Ottawa and the day was a success! 16...

What does your institution contribute to community-engaged research?; Social Planning Cowichan (SPC) is a charitable society with the goal of providing leadership that brings the community together to create a sustainable quality of life for everyone in the Cowichan Region on Victoria Island. Our organisation contributes to numerous community-engaged research activities, primarily through participatory research and community guided projects. With the guidance/contribution(s) of other...

Over the past year, CBR Canada members and live online discussion participants have shown an interest in forming community of practice groups. This is an opportunity to connect with other community-based researchers on a topic that is important to you, expand your network, share challenges and best practices relevant to your research. The COVID19 pandemic has interrupted our community engagement and networking opportunities, now is the time to connect with people from across Canada doing...

Lakehead University is a CBR Canada member, and three faculty members from Lakehead have received more than $73,000 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.to conduct research related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the news story here > #MemberNews

Barclay, K., & Garcia, S. G. (2020). Adapting research methodologies in the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers may have originally relied on face-to-face forms of human interaction to collect their data and they can no longer do so due to the mobility restrictions in place worldwide. This document offers guidance on potentially useful methods to help redesign their projects. #MemberResearch #EquityinResearch

Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) at 312 Main Street, Vancouver is ready to launch. Led by Co-Directors, Stuart Poyntz, SFU professor, School of Communication, and Am Johal, director, SFU’s VanCity Office of Community Engagement, CERi will open new offices at 312 Main in December 2019 and will offer a series of new programs, resources, events and space designed to support and enhance community-engaged research across SFU’s three campuses, throughout the...

We hope this message greets everyone in a position to enjoy a relaxing holiday season with family and friends. The end of the year tends to be a time of both reflection and anticipation of what is to come in the new year. For CBCR, 2019 has been a very important year of re-imagining and solidifying our role as a conveyor, organizer, and supporter of all important things related to community-based research in Canada. In 2019 CBRC hosted six webinars that showcased ambitious research projects...